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MIT License | MIT License |
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Setting up a WebSocket server in Node.js
Before setting up a WebSocket server in Node.js, we need to install the necessary dependencies. Fortunately, Node.js has a vibrant ecosystem with various WebSocket libraries available. In this article, we will focus on using the popular ws library, which provides a simple and efficient WebSocket implementation for Node.js.
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8 Best WebSocket Libraries For Node
WS has a user base of 17.7 million people and over 20,000 forks. It also has clear and concise documentation, with examples and API references, to help developers understand how to integrate it into their projects.
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WebSockets 101
In order to implement websockets, you can use a nodejs library named ws. It provides a fast and simple way to establish a websocket connection.
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Is there anyway to auto reload the browser page when using express?
Next, you can use a library like chokidar to listen for changes in your source directory. Create a ws server, and whenever a file changes, send a message.
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Is my health check endpoint good enough?
I use redis, sequelize and PG Listen/Notify via Robust Listeners with a websocket server coded in ws
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7 Useful JavaScript Libraries To Build a Real-Time Web App
With over 19k stars on GitHub and about 60 million weekly downloads on npm, ws is one of the most popular open-source libraries for real-time web application development
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Nest JS Websockets - Basics
Nest supports 2 websocket platforms - socket.io and ws. We're going to be using socket.io.
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Render.com and Websocket: Connection randomly being closed after 5-ish minutes?
I'm trying out Render.com as a potential replacement for Heroku to host and run my code, which uses Node, Express, and the ws package to connect a game made on Godot Engine and the webapp, using a Websocket connection. However, when I migrated the code over, I've noticed that the game lasts barely a quarter of the way before the server aborts the Websocket connection for literally no reason. I'm serious, it's what the log says:
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Quick introduction to WebSockets with Node.js
If you want to learn more about WebSockets, check out the official documentation.
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5 enhancements that will boost your Node.js app
Making use of Web Sockets to improve server communication.
chokidar
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The best testing setup for frontends, with Playwright and NextJS
For this, we'll use chokidar - more specifically the chokidar-cli package. chokidar is probably the most useful file watching library for the nodejs ecosystem and it will serve us well.
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Why Does 'Is-Number' Package Have 59M Weekly Downloads?
tailwindcss -> chokidar -> braces -> fill-range -> to-regex-range -> is-number
is-number was first published 9 years ago, when these kind of micro-packages were in vogue. braces was added as a dependency to chokidar over 6 years ago [1]. And if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I don't think the average JS dev today is going out and pulling in these deps.
[1] https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/commit/cbdf25563cfff7f...
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How nodemon works?
The watching magic is really in the https://www.npmjs.com/package/chokidar library
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Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
> It’s typical to listen to this stream of events and use chained if-else statements to determine an action based on the type of the events that occur.
You'd think something like directory watching would have a clear set of events that would make nice objects with consistent meanings, but in my experience file watching gets crazy complicated, and can have all sorts of edge cases.
Just take a looked here for all the various edge cases that crop up: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/issues
Then you have linux, windows, macos, and maybe you want to abstract over some underlying implementation like chokidar vs fb/watchman vs webpack/watchpack. Every new OS release could also cause things to change.
So usually its going to be a bunch of if-else statements hacked together to get around edge cases, and have to be revisited later on.
Any attempt to abstract this into objects, just obfuscates things. And OO forces you to name things, when in fact they might be un-nameable. `FileSystemModifyEventExceptWhenXAndYAndSometimesZ`.
The behavior might rely on a series of events together, so the object hierarchy must be re-worked.
OO has this rosy idea that we just have to come up with the perfect hierarchy, but things change in unexpected ways, and everything must have a descriptive noun.
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Is there anyway to auto reload the browser page when using express?
Next, you can use a library like chokidar to listen for changes in your source directory. Create a ws server, and whenever a file changes, send a message.
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How does nodemon works under the hood?
As another has mentioned, nodemon uses chokidar under the hood for the actual file watching part.
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Turbowatch – Extremely fast alternative to Nodemon
At the end of the day, ironically, Nodemon does not even implement file watching functionality. It is a thin wrapper around chokidar (see source code), and the way it is being used is neither efficient (CPU and your battery usage) or performant. So it is not a false argument, just perhaps not the most appealing.
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How is React's Hot Module Reloading implemented (at a medium-high level of detail)?
for file watching, it might use something similar to https://www.npmjs.com/package/chokidar
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Setup TailwindCSS, postcss and esbuild on Rails 7
First, we need to install chokidar to enable watching and automatically refreshing our files.
What are some alternatives?
fastify-websocket - basic websocket support for fastify
Filehound - Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system
uWebSockets.js - μWebSockets for Node.js back-ends :metal:
Nodemon.io - Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development
Socket.io - Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
fs-extra - Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs()
redux-toolkit - The official, opinionated, batteries-included toolset for efficient Redux development
Watch-fn
graphql-ws - Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol compliant server and client.
filenamify - Convert a string to a valid safe filename
Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js.
globby - User-friendly glob matching